• tankplanker@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Does it have online exams? Pearsons shitty anti cheat stuff they use for proctoring is windows and mac only.

    Having seen how much people cheat including using someone else using screensharing to proxy the exam for you I cannot blame them for wanting to do this, but I do blame them for not wanting to support Linux properly.

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      8 hours ago

      If they’re going to have online exams they need to just accept that cheating is going to happen. There’s a million ways to do that in an environment you control. Make the exams open book but make it harder to account for the fact that the students have access to reference materials.

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          7 hours ago

          Not really a lot of the teachers at the tech school I went to did it that way and I know for a fact they weren’t getting paid well at all.

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              16 minutes ago

              They weren’t donating their time. Writing tests was part of their job. They just made the questions a lot harder and more based on practical knowledge. Rather than just recalling information found in the book you had to apply the information to answer the questions.

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        6 hours ago

        So, in principle, I agree, but it doesn’t help with proxying, or for example, one I saw this week of someone using AI voice assistant to answer questions. Or people copying and pasting from online groups.

        Their shitty software monitors all the connected devices, running processes, and webcam. That’s still needed for open book.